People
490
Academia
Janet Gannon
Corp. development director
Transcendia
Stuart Umpleby
Past president
American Cybernetics Society
Robert Swieringa
Accounting prof. emeritus
Cornell University
Tony Laing
Director, Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Men of Color Initiative
Joe Alutto
Provost, interim president
Ohio State
Mike Small
Illini golf coach
13-time Big Ten Coach of the Year
Jennifer Ollie
STEM program manager
Chicago Public Schools
Julia Azari
American presidency expert
Author, Marquette professor
Otho Tucker
Illini guard, 1972-76
Charter school CEO
Daniel Dias
Senior economist
Federal Reserve Board
Donald Johanson
Paleoanthropologist
Discovered Lucy skeleton
Russell Dupuis
Chair, Electro-Optics
Georgia Tech
David Goldberg
Founder, Threejoy Associates
UI professor emeritus
Eboo Patel
Faith advisor
Obama Administration
David Wrone
Author, historian, professor
Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Javier Cevallos
University president
Framingham State
Richard Powers
2019 Pulitzer Prize
Won 1989 ‘Genius’ grant
Joe Tanner
NASA astronaut
Flew 4 shuttle missions
Stan Ikenberry
UI’s 14th president, 1979-95
Longest-serving president
Phillip Sharp
Renowned geneticist, biologist
Shared 1993 Nobel Prize
Joshua Gorman
Smithsonian registrar
American History Museum
Emil Javier
Former minister of science
The Philippines
Tom Trone
Retired director/sales
John Deere
Bill Baker
Structural engineer
Alumni Achievement Award
